Second chance is a legitimate eBay offer. I have one eBay item sold that the
buyer hasn't paid for yet. He claims he didn't know it was a Paypal only
sale and has asked to send a money order. I've told him that if the money
isn't received by a certain date I'll use the Second Chance offer option for
the next highest bidder. If I use it, that person will pay what their final
bid was.
As to the "Question from eBay member", the ones that I receive (as a seller)
have the subject line "Question for eBay item #xxxxxxxx". That's when a
perspective buyer has a question about the item you're selling. The Q & A
will usually get posted to the page with your item for sale so everyone
bidding can see it.
Bob Danielson
1975 TR6
http://tr6.danielsonfamily.org
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-triumphs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-triumphs@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Mark Hooper
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 6:24 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Am I being scammed?
OK, I bid on a TR6 part on e-bay and lost. Now I've received a message from
a gentleman saying that the winner didn't pay so I have a "second chance" to
buy at my bid level. The sender has responded and is saying that they will
initiate the second chance thingy so that it follows purely official
methods.
According to ebay that would be something appearing in my ebay that I would
then pay for using paypal or whatnot. Is there a way for me to be sure of
this? It's for a large item (transmission) so I'm not too thrilled at the
idea of paying for something and then getting a big fat goose egg in the
post.
It's all wrapped up in stuff that looks fairly officially e-bay, but I'm
concerned. The thing that bugs me is that the e-bay site says they will
never send an e-mail with the subject "Question from ebay member". Guess
what, that's what mine started with. Foolishly, I've sent name and address,
but no financial data, so I'm hopefully still OK. (Other than the fact that
somebody knows where a TR is parked that is).
I'm on the verge of ignoring/reporting this, but not sure. If the sender
agrees to send phone number for me to call to discuss the part, is that
likely to be of any use, or are people so skilled at skinning poor schmucks
like me that I won't even know that I've been re-directed to a call centre
where thousands of fools are parted from their money every day?
If it's too good to be true... Now to wire up a 10,000VAC source to the
garage alarm. Sigh...
Mark
(should I feel more youthful, being this naive?)
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